COOKIE POLICY

Last Updated: May 30, 2026

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them on our website located at https://theblackdeed.org (the “Services”). Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you load web pages. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, remember your login preferences, keep your shopping configurations active, analyze traffic patterns, and provide security protections to the site administrators.

2. HOW WE USE COOKIES

Our platform utilizes a carefully managed cookie footprint designed to run essential backend operations and monitor general site performance. We do not load third-party marketing advertising cookies or cross-site behavior-targeting scripts.

The operational cookies running on our website fall into the following technical categories:

A. Strictly Necessary & Session Cookies
These cookies are crucial to enable the basic core features of our site, such as user security, identity verification, and page rendering. The website cannot function correctly without these scripts.

  • WordPress Core: Used to check if your browser accepts basic technical site scripts and handles secure session authentication.
  • GiveWP System: Deployed automatically to maintain active session identifiers for donor profiles, tracking contribution inputs across multi-step donation tiers without dropping payment credentials.
  • WooCommerce System: Temporarily remembers store interactions, cart contents, and items added to checkout queues while navigating our digital storefront layouts.
  • CookieYes: Remembers your specific privacy and cookie consent preferences so the site respects your choices on return visits.

B. Analytics & Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our platform by collecting anonymous data on traffic sources, popular music resources, and page loading speeds.

  • Google Analytics (GA4 via Google Site Kit): We utilize Google Analytics to monitor aggregated user traffic patterns. This script drops performance cookies to measure metrics like your country location, device type, and which music articles you view.
  • Google Consent Mode: Our tracking scripts operate in direct synchronization with our user cookie banner. If you choose to deny analytics tracking, Google Analytics automatically switches to a cookieless, anonymized data modeling system to fully respect your privacy choices.

C. Functionality & Security Cookies
These files allow our system to remember choices you make while navigating our pages, preventing you from having to re-type preferences on subsequent visits.

  • User Interface Settings: Remembers design defaults or display selections, such as theme configurations or dismissed popup notifications.
  • Anti-Fraud Identifiers: Utilized by automated integration blocks (including Stripe and Square gateways) to analyze session patterns to detect and block automated card testing or malicious server attacks.

3. MANAGING AND DISABLING COOKIES

Most modern web browsers allow you to control cookie preferences through their native settings panels. You can configure your browser to block all incoming cookies, flag tracking files, or wipe out your browser’s stored cache histories. You can also adjust or revoke your cookie choices at any time directly on our website using our on-screen privacy banner controls.

Please be aware that if you choose to completely disable or block essential cookies, vital web assets—including the GiveWP contribution gateways and WooCommerce shop elements—may fail to execute or load properly.

4. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or require further technical details regarding the operational scripts deployed on our platform, please reach out to us at:

The Black Deed
Email: contact@theblackdeed.org
Mailing Address: 617 East 82nd Street, Los Angeles, California 90001